Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backstage, the models are sitting half naked on the dressing-room floors, painting pink and blue Kabuki stripes on their eyelids. The dressers hover over their racks, rolling pink and yellow and gray pantyhose for instant changes. The hat, jewelry, makeup and music co-ordinators stand ready. "Take it off, it's too white," says Galanos, snatching a rope of beads from the neck of a black-and-white coat. The models line up for the opening parade. Makeup and style have reduced them to pure line and angle. They look like fashion sketches of, say, 1936. They swagger...
...like a good deed. Occasionally, it will burst into dramatic feeling, as in Horace's bout of delirium, a wonderfully judged piece of writing and acting. But then characters will lose their edges in the diffused light that seeps through the windows like radiation and gives the picture its instant-nostalgia look. Important lines of dialogue will be muffled by heavy footsteps or a piano's plaint. The crucial event of the Robedaux family occurs offscreen, in a narrative caesura between the film's two "acts." Watching this film is like going on a diet: it is probably healthy...
...prominent face not at yesterday's forum was 23-year-old Edward M. Kennedy Jr., son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) whose anticipated entrance into the race is expected to make him an instant front runner...
Another pet phrase, voiced by the rather dazed huntsmen and villagers of the dream scenes is, "They say seeing is believing..." This is usually muttered after the hacked-off forepaw or noggin of a wolf develops hominoid traits in instant coffee fashion...
...comes in their calling themselves "the President and Fellows," a parroting of the University's power structure which one can only wish were satirical. From parroting to sycophancy, there is the spectacle of the Forum's "Advisory Board," a cluster of Harvard's brightest superstars, linked only by the instant recognizability of their names. Do only such prestigious tenured professors make fitting advisors? Or do their names look great on the masthead? (That eleven of the twelve advisers are men and all of them white is, to be honest, more representative if Harvard then of the overt prejudices...